Roll-holder.



E.0. BULMAN.

- ROLL HOLDER.

APPLICATION IILED MAY 1, 1908.

Patented Jan; 12, 1909.

1m 0. ulm xy E @HM/neg ELVAH O. BULMAN, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.

ROLL-HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed May 7, 1908.

Patented Jan. 12, 1909.

Serial No. 431,362.

To all whom lit may concern:

Be it known that I, ELVAH O. BULMAN, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Grand Rapids, in the county of Kent and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful improvements in Rollllolders; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in roll holders for paper and its object is to provide adjustable supports for the same whereby a series of rolls may be readily superposed, to provide improved means for engaging the end of the roll of paper and severing the same, to provide improved journal bearings for the device, to simplify and cheapen the structure and to provide the same with various new and useful features hereinafter more fully described and particularly pointed out in the claims, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1. is an end elevation of a series of superposed roll holders; Fig. 2 a perspective of one of the same; Fig. 3. a detail of the holding and severing mechanism; Fig. 4. a transverse section of the same on the line 4 4 of Fig. 3.; Fig. 5. a sheet metal blank for one of the bearings; Fig. 6. a detail of one of the bearings; and, Fig. 7 a detail of a portion of the bar 11 and arm 10.

Like nmnbers refer to like parts in all of the figures.

1, 2, and 3 represent rolls of paper of various sizes, superposed one above the other; a are supports for the device formed preferably of strips of band iron having upwardly extended leg portions bent near the top and extended outward as at 7 and thence upward and having a horizontal middle portion 8 to support a small platform 9 above the roll. The rolls of paper are supported on bearings at the respective ends formed of sheet metal, L-shaped, one member 5 being bent in U-shape to form an open journal bearing, the other member 6 being perforated and riveted to one of the legs 4, the bent member 5 being opposite the edge of the leg whereby the axle of the roll abuts against the edge of the leg and thus prevents frictional contact of the roll with the edge of the bearing. By mounting these bearings on one leg one at each end, the legs can be spaced apart at the bottom more or less to adapt them to fit upon the respective superposed platforms 9. By being bent outward and thence upward as at 7 the bolt ends can be placed within the same, leaving room to apply a wrench thereto.

On the under side of each platform 9 is a torsion spring l5 preferably of steel wire having a loop 16 at the middle and rotatively held at its ends and secured at the middle by staples 17 driven into the under side of the platform. 'This metal loop 16 engages the platform and prevents the rod from turning at the middle and also provides a longitudinally yieldable feed of the rod. Hooks 18 formed in each end of the rod engage and secure the upper ends of arms 10, which extend outward and downward therefrom and are shouldered near the lower end. Said ends being narrower and offset downward extend through holes or openings in a bar 11 and are clenched on the under side of the same to attach the bar to these arms. This bar yieldingly engages the surface of the roll of paper and yielding-'ly holds the same from turning and also prevents the end of the roll from becoming loosened. after it has been torn off. To leave a suflicient end of the paper beyond this bar to conveniently grasp the same when more paper is wanted, there is attached outwardly and downwardly curved arms 12 to the bar, on the lower end of which is a knife 13 against which the paper is severed consisting of a strip of thin sheet metal, preferably of steel, the same being stiffened and held straight by having its upper edoe rolled in tubular form as at 13. If preferred these arms and this cutter can be detached and the paper severed along the edge of the bar 11, but l prefer to use this attachment for the convenience of having the end of the paper easily accessible.

That l claim is:

l. A roll holder comprising legs, each pair formed of a continuous strip of metal having its middle portion horizontal and thence extending downward and inward to near each other, and thence diagonally downward and outward, a bearing attached to one of said legs only at each end of the device whereby the legs may be relatively adjusted at the bottom.

2. A roll holder comprising legs formed of a continuous strip of metal, a platform attached to the same, bearings attached and supported by one leg only at each end of the device and a roll for the journals resting in said bearings and engaging the edges of the le s.

A roll holder comprising legs each formed of a strip of metal, bearings each consisting of an L-shaped piece of .sheet lmetal attached to a leg and extending inward therefrom and also having a portion bent in U-shape and extending inward from the leg,

and a roll having journals engaging the bearings and abutting Aagainst the inner edges of the llegs.

4. In fa roll holder, a platform, means or supporting the platform comprising integral strips of sheet metal, bearings for a roll mounted on one leg :at each end fof the dethe respective ends of the spring, the lower .end of said arms being shouldered and extended through openings in the bar, a bar supported by said arms, detachable arms" attached to the bar and a knife attached to said arms and consisting of a strip of thin metal rolled to tubular form at one edge.

In testimony whereof aiix my signature in presence of 4two witnesses.

ELVAH O. BULMAN. Witnessesz GEORGIANA CHACE,

O. VAN ANTWERP. 

